Trump readies US troops for ground invasion in Mexico to go after cartels
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Imagine if this guy spent this much energy on building housing.
Wasn't that his previous career?
It was less " building" and more "extracting rent as a management company".
Any building he did was for corporate space, resorts, or casinos.
Yes but not necessarily and endorsement. He ran several companies into the ground
If you look for "bankrupt casino" his failure is number 1:
Looks like how he decorated the white house Hope he kept the Liquidation sign
He's got babies to rape
https://youtu.be/yjzojGK2n_g
Or upgrading the grid to accept more renewables
Hey
PolandMexico... Here comesGermanyThe US to liberate you from your crime problem.Ffs. Call it what it is: The Fourth Reich
The turd reich
The Burger Reich
Hey Ukraine, here comes Russia to liberate you from your Nazi problem.
He saw big boy Vlad do it and wants to copy his idol.
Just a special military operation, 4 days maximum
“It will be easy, it will be quick and we are sure to win” Charles the Ist, 1642, John Burgoyne, 1777, Napoleon, 1812, Hitler, Nixon, W Bush, the list of everyone who falls for it is long lol
So like the same situation with those fishing boats? Just going to go and kill a bunch of people without a trial and claim they were cartels. ?
Oh this won't go well.
Cartels don't... Care about war crimes. Like at all. Like less than Trump.
These soldiers families are about to be at risk.
Wild shit to go military on cartels.
Seriously, he does not have a single clue what he's marching the US into. That's going to be incredibly messy at best
And going forward. The cartels won't forgive or forget what happens.
Uh, pay attention, the US has been marching stupidly into shit shows since the Korean war. Did we learning nothing from MASH?
Learning things is un-American.
It'd be worse than that. We don't share a border with North Korea. We will not like what happens if we initiate endless blood feuds with our next door neighbors.
Sounds like this is the planned outcome actually.
Didn’t he want to fly families out to surprise his military minions in Afghanistan as well?
Not too sure how tough the Marines will be when their kids start disappearing.
This shit happens daily in Juarez. I feel sorry for anyone getting deployed there.
Can we just... not?
The Military Industrial Complex forces the US to always be at war somewhere around the world. Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Palantir (the big one now), and many others are the reason the US is doing this military campaign. Gotta keep those shareholders happy.
Call his bluff. He just wants to wag his dick around. So mexico should mobilize their army at the border and say "cross this line and you are declaring war."
Guaranteed someone up high makes him understand how politically stupid that would be. Probably in pictures. With small words.
I don't think we have enough time or crayons for that
Who else are we going to change the dissidents at? Are you going to kick off with the middle east or southeast asia, with these gas prices?
Wake up babe, new forever war just dropped
naw. sleep in, babe... you won't miss it
Wake me up when November ends
It's Tuesday again, he'll wuss out on this like he does everything else
Yeah, this is great. We're going to (illegally) invade Mexico ane Venezuela simultaneously, while also occupying our own cities that don't go along the paramilitary immigration Gestapo. Oh, and we're also waging chaotic, impulsive trade wars with literally every country on Earth. Maybe we can get a ground war going in Russia as well, really speed run the imperial collapse.
Don't forget Nigeria! You know, the oil rich African country with 60 million military aged (18-35) men.
There's so much terrible news all the time, I legitimately don't know if we've threatened to attack Nigeria or not
He has.
Well, fuck.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/03/why-is-donald-trump-threatening-military-intervention-in-nigeria
I feel this. I want to play a game and check out, but I sliced the fuck out of left index finger a few days ago...
You don't need that finger for gran Turismo...
Good point! I haven't played 6 in a while.
Wait till you upgrade to 7... GT sport was a decent stopgap, but 7 is so good I'm having trouble believing they can improve on it. The game is very serious but swaps can make it funny as hell. You can put the legendary 2jz Supra engine into a Yaris, a Chiron 1500 HP W16 into a Corvette, the Hellcat engine into a 1942 Willy's jeep, there's a lot of ridiculous fun to be had with engine swaps. You can even put a Porsche 911 engine into a VW bus. Good luck winning any races with some of these swaps, but it certainly is funny!
At least we know that imdex finger is out of fucks.
You've got to find a way to check out a little. If you try to stay in top of this shit 24/7 you'll have a breakdown. A little time to focus on something, anything, that gives you joy is important.
Why? No dont do that!! Keep having hope and taking action. We are all winning together. Dont sacrifice your ability to game!
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Throw in a land war in Asia
Classic blunder
This must be how the people in a Civs world must feel. Like things, just not making any sense.
Watch out for Gandhi
He’s not going for cartels, the US supplies cartels with weapons and gives drugs to the US. That’s their cash cow!
He is going because the political parties the US funds in Mexico are loosing popularity and they need to interfere before it’s too late.
In a move straight out of Daddy Putin's playbook.
But Trump knows where Daddy Putin went wrong. 3 day operation. 40 mile line of tanks to Mexico City.
So peaceful. Give this man 2 Nobel peace prizes.
If the cartels turn Trump and his fellow MAGATs into gas station attendants, I wouldn't mind. They are also welcome to burn down the ballroom.
How are they already bored with invading our own cities? I'm not saying that I endorse any of this shit-show, but can we please just leave our neighbors alone?
Papa Naranja, tenemos muchos personas aqui. ¿Porque necesitas tambien chinga con los personas aya? Iqualmente, por favor no chingale con nosotros. Vayas al dormir, el viejo mejor, por favor.
Uh, this is the second neighbour/ally/trilateral trade partner who's sovereignty he's threatened
Yes, but that was BEFORE he soft-launched martial law against cities that vote against him. Deploying troops is a huge escalation over threats and emboldens his administration while desensitizing us to his horrors.
The last I heard, we've now murdered 10 boatsful of Venezuelans. I don't even know if that number is accurate because I've been too busy to really catch up on all of our current atrocities. The last I'd heard before that number was 3.
The point is, we're getting to the point that we'd shrug at following through on a foreign invasion. What I'm saying is that while we're now watching our fearless leader make good on bad promises, let's keep a Mexican invasion categorized under TACOs. If we start threatening to force our way north, then you'll get to see how much worse my French is than my Spanish.
You could take a look at the article in order to catch up: "If authorized, the planned missions would represent a significant escalation in Trump’s ongoing series of attacks against he has claimed to be drug cartel operations, which include at least 15 strikes against alleged drug smuggling boats in the Caribbean and western Pacific Ocean."
Up to 15 strikes it looks like.
No.
But you're right, I probably should have read it before responding. I was immediately reactionary.
Sorry for the attitude, looks like I was in a shitty mood. Apologies.
From my perspective, no need to apologize. You called me out where I deserved to be called out. You did not attack me personally and provided context. I seriously thought you were offering a stern and sincere response, which I totally respect.
That being said, I'm sorry that you were in a shitty mood. These are very stressful times and it's easy to accidentally snap at your neighbor. Remember that the most valuable resource you can offer is yourself, which is why it's important to take care of yourself. If you ever need to vent and just feel the acknowledgement of another human, feel free to send a message.
Thanks! Elevated my mood instantly to be reminded that it's still possible to behave as humans online.
Wow, someone is paying attention!
The shithead-in-chief wants a war so he can declare martial law and end our chance to rid ourselves of his cancer.
Hopefully cancer will rid us of him first. All the medical talk about him recently has me hopeful.
Or is flooding about the Epstein files continually the distraction.
My guess would be loads of bombs, drones and unnecessary suffering
Mind you, this wouldn't be anything different from the three day operation in Ukraine.
The results wouldn't be the same as Ukraine, there is no way that Mexico can defend itself against the US but...
We got boat loads of Narcos there with US special forces training and guns supplied by the US and they know the territories like the back of their hands
Sounds familiar? If anyone though Afghanistan nwas bad, wait until the first load of US soldiers are hanging from bridges or star in beheading videos, because that is what will happen when the US invades Mexico.
That doesn't even begin to talk about what Mexicans on US soil could pull off.
The US would destroy Mexico, that's for sure, because that is what the US does best, pretending it comes to liberate while absolutely devastating the country they invade, then it gets it's ass handed back.
México would destroy the US in kind. Not by conquering it or something, but by similar guerilla tactics that have been used in Afghanistan, etc. the amount of US soldiers coming back in coffins, combined nwith attacks on US soil will kill this joke of a presidency
No he isn't, he isn't declaring war with mexico, that would be REALLY, REALLY stupid.
This is one of his horrible attempts at negotiating with Mexico, but it just comes across as insanity.
You know he is REALLY, REALLY, REALLY stupid right?
He technically can't declare war.
The US hasn’t “technically” been at war since WW2. We weren’t “at war” during the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War…
Only open war we've had since I can remember is the war on drugs and homelessness. Shows you were our priorities lie considering we haven't done shit to address either.
We've actually only made things worse in regards to both.
Technically and laws don't apply to this administration, if he were to declare war the Republicans would just predate a declaration of war and say it's legal.
No but he might declare a Special Military Operation. To be over in 3 days, also.
HW Bush proved a president can without any repercussions no matter how illegally the war is declared. We lost that power check a long time ago.
He never declared war, technically.
He clearly violated the letter and spirit of the law with the attack on Panama. According to historians. The prevailing analysis I've heard is that both parties didn't want to impeach him because the fallout from Nixon was considered too big a national problem to revisit.
If he incurs on Mexico, I fully expect Mexico to declare war.
Not to worry. That perfect impenetrable wall that Trump had built during his first term will protect us all from the Mexican army.
Texas is gunna find out real quick what is like being a buffer state. Hope you assholes get the day you voted and/or were too lazy to vote for.
Are we also going to be invading Nigeria to stop "persecution" of Christians?
The USA has to stop being World Police, and I thought they had? Get your own shit straightened out fuckbag!
He is just trying to make points for the next Nobel Peace Prize.
If the us couldn’t the stop the “extremists” permanently. Then how the hell are we gonna stop the ongoing war on drugs from the past 10 administrations ago??
Easily. I could knock that out in a few months. Just legalize possession and allow regulated domestic production. Demand for cartel product would plummet catastrophically and they would run out of money.
Great! At least ur not trying to physically murder ppl from a probability prediction!
The bizarre thing about the war on drugs is that America has no clue how to deal with the massive demand for drugs. Are Mexican cartels forcing people to buy drugs?
Did you just assume our uninsatiable drug use.
Switching from "for the children" to "against cartels" meanwhile the epstein files are getting so old they will just be able to claim you can't even make anything out on them anymore
So old that no Republicans would ever want to touch them
Can this late third trimester pregnancy be aborted, please?
Mexico is one of few who have beaten the French…. If you just test Mexico, Mexico won’t test back… you just get fucked.
Them cartels ain’t no joke.
Lets call it the
GazaMexican ‘Riviera’ - shit that name is in use already, lest try West TexasI hope this forces Latin America to have it's own coalition like AU or EU
Mexico should join up with caribbean, central america, and the 2 south america EU organizations (I know 1 is called Mercosur but forgot the rest)
Do you remember Call of Duty: Ghosts ?
Not really, is that a similar plot to what I said?
Because in that game Latin America had a union
Good luck dipshits. War will be over a lot sooner if you March on DC and neutralized a few thousand traitors
No Epstein comments here yet. The distraction is working!
Can we just... not?
The Military Industrial Complex forces the US to always be at war somewhere around the world. Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Palantir (the big one now), and many others are the reason the US is doing this military campaign. Gotta keep those shareholders happy.
Bi-partisan mothers and fathers in all states (both red and blue) ready for an internal ground invasion to procure and publish the Epstein files. This is called protecting your children.
Just a friendly tour.
TRUMP SHOULD BE ARRESTED
I have honestly been saying this for years. Why are Americans stomping around the Middle East to stop half baked groups of religious insurgents when there are cartels right on their border and inside. We all know this is just posturing, as Americans and the GoP love bombing the Middle East and consuming cartel drugs
Yeah, I've had this thought for a while now. Why not fight the cartels and make Mexico a great place to live. Then we wouldn't have so many trying to come to the US. It could unironically solve the "immigration problem" if done properly.
Think of the poor MIC shareholders!!
This might be the only war he can actually put an end to